018: Week of 1491710400

I did so many different things this week! DevOps is really great and my role working between teams really brings me different challenges daily. Be it cultural or technical I am rarely doing the same thing hour-by-hour. Two things that did take a lot of my time this week were building new MySQL. database replicas (you know… state) and Mac server monitoring.

Surprisingly, I maintain a Mac server or two for package building for one of our products. There are literally no “out of the box” monitoring solutions for Mac OS X anymore. This is equally unsurprising and indicative of how a platform that is used by so many in DevOps is not used for production workloads. There is nothing wrong with this; it is just odd to me monitoring a Mac is such a cumbersome task (no it’s not just FreeBSD).

In the world of DevOps otherwise, it has been a pretty busy week. Let’s have a look!

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Department of Choice Concepts

Speaking of **Kubernetes**, I have been tinkering with it more and more (who isn’t?). I really enjoy the tool and the concepts of k8s but, the documentation needs some serious help. I have volunteered to help the sig-docs team to clean this up. If you have some cycles please consider helping out, the team is VERY receptive and accepting. For the record, Joe Beda pushed me to do something.

Department of Refreshment and Refurbishment

Here is something really off the wall, iodine: IPv4 over DNS tunnel. This is something I would have used in various military networks of yesteryear to prove security is not as good as they thought it was. Enforce ports AND protocols, folks.

Jenkins announced their long overdue improvement to their UI, Blue Ocean, went 1.0. I am excited to get this out there and start tinkering with it. I feel like the Jenkins UI is daunting to new users.

Security is an important aspect of every information worker’s daily routine. To ignore this is to end up a headline in a newspaper regarding your breach. I think it might be past time for the DevOps community to be concerned about container security.

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.